Kueyoung is a senior at Penn State studying Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics. Through his interdisciplinary research projects ranging from elucidating how surfactants impact wetted oil droplets to employing DNA origami to investigate photosynthetic energy transport, he has had the opportunity to join diverse scientific communities across the world, including at the University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, and MIT. He has authored two first-author publications and received multiple awards for his work at local and national conferences. Following his graduation, he will join the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge for an MPhil in Physics with Prof. Richard Friend; he will then return to the United States for his PhD in Chemistry at UC Berkeley. With a goal of tackling challenges in sustainability during his research career as a professor, he is determined to apply his collaborative mindset and ceaseless curiosity at the intersection of chemistry, physics, and biology.

Outside of the lab, Kueyoung organizes science outreach for local K12 students and serves as the President of the Eberly College of Science’s student ambassador organization. In his free time, you can find Kueyoung lumbering through his (admittedly daunting) stack of "to be read" literary fiction, lifting heavy objects for fun in the gym, and agonizing over his coffee-brewing technique.